Eleanor, Chicago

Eleanor, ChicagoArtwork Info About the Artist circa 1947 Gelatin silver print Annotated 5 57, in ink, au verso Printed circa 1985 Harry Callahan (1912 1999) was born in Detroit, studied engineering at Michigan State University, and worked for Chrysler before taking up photography as a hobby in 1938. Callahan cited a visit by Ansel Adams to his local camera club in 1941 as the time he began to view photography seriously. Self taught as a photographer, he found work in

Later bodies of work dealing with the hidden dramas of adult relationships and the reenactments of male homosexual desire evolved from this primarily theatrical approach

Numerous museums and galleries around the world contain and exhibit his work

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with exhibition label from The Toronto Salon at the Canadian National Exhibition

and the Canadian Governor General

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The work offers the viewer an impassioned eye on Canadian society during a period of change

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and several prime ministers of Israel

They toured Europe in several expositions

000 different finished photographic prints were made for the press